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After reading some of the positive reviews on Amazon for RDVII I began to wonder if I'd just been having a bad year when that one came out and that really it hadn't been quite the umitigated horror that I'd thought.

Then Homechoice put the series up on their free Video on Demand channel and it took approximately 15 seconds of the first episode to remind me that there are people who genuinely are morons and think the Tomb Raider movie is good and that Red Dwarf VII should be forever consigned to the dustbin.

Possibly the worst thing the BBC ever produced under the misleading banner of 'Comedy'. Yes, worse than Last of the Summer Wine.

I loved VI when it came out and watching it again on DVD when the set finally came through I still did. While it was sad to lose Holly I think the scripts were interesting in the sci-fi ideas they explored.

series 7 was very bad - it just reminds me of realising childhood was over and I was baout to fail my degree (i didnt but you know what I mean) I think it was written by men without girlfriends for men without girlfriends. ugh

is the shit.
i remember when my friends started talking about it in primary school and i hadn't actually seen it, i thought that it was about an actual red dwarf who travelled around in space getting into scrapes

watching the first series with my mum when it first came out. It was very cool, though I think that series doesn't stand up as well as the later ones for laughs nowadays.

But in bizarre BBC style they then refused to repeat it for 5 years or something. I remember them doing the same with The Black Adder, which I also had dim memories of. I still enjoy The Black Adder despite it not really being anything like the others.

"So Percy, what you're telling me is something that you have never seen is *slightly* more blue than something else you have never seen?"

The fact its being made into a film (I'm pretty sure you're British?) is a complete shit. Its obviously going to follow the lines of the latest attempts of series. Programs shouldn't be made into films at all. Especially not sitcoms.

It's not the original cast and crew without Claire Grogan as Kochanski and without Rob Grant as co-writer.

Frankly the reason VII and to a slightly less extent VIII were rubbish is because Doug Naylor is fucking awful writer on his own. (Just, incidentally, as George Lucas is piss-poor without Marcia and Gary Kurtz.)

No, given the plot outlined there this movie will be fucking dreadful.

*sigh*

Wrighty, did you give up at Series IV or did you see the others? I remember thinking at the time that Red Dwarf IV wasn't that good but V and VI were both a lot better. Just wondering.